The Vatican houses the central government of the Catholic Church and is also an independent city-state. The pope is both the ...

Raffaella Petrini has been appointed as the first female President of the Vatican City State becoming the governor of the ...

Pope Francis remained stable through the day on Sunday and no longer required the use of mechanical ventilation to breathe, ...

Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, LC, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State and president of the Pontifical ...

Pope Francis had an "isolated breathing crisis" in hospital on Friday, the Vatican said, in a setback as the 88-year-old ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis suffered a coughing fit that resulted in him breathing in vomit, requiring noninvasive ...

The Vatican's Tuesday noon bulletin announced that Francis had approved decrees for two new saints and five people for ...

The Vatican has set in motion nightly prayers for Pope Francis in the hope that he might recover and get back to leading the ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis, who is hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, was well enough to meet with ...

ROME — Pope Francis was a frequent visitor to Rome long before he became pope, and over time found his favorite shops and ...

The Vatican announced on Tuesday that Francis had appointed Archbishop Emilio Nappa and layman Giuseppe Puglisi-Alibrandi to ...